1. Bo Goldman received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Writers Guild of America Awards as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998.
22 Facts About Bo Goldman
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Bo Goldman wrote The Rose, Shoot the Moon, Scent of a Woman, and Meet Joe Black.
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Robert Spencer Bo Goldman was born in 1932 to a Jewish family in New York City.
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Bo Goldman was the son of Lillian, a hat model, and Julian Goldman.
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Bo Goldman's father was a Broadway producer, and owned a chain of well known eastern department stores called The Bo Goldman Stores, and as an early pioneer of "time payments", his business thrived, though the family would struggle amid the Great Depression.
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The New York Times wrote that Bo Goldman's upbringing was "strangely hand to mouth in a 12-room apartment on Park Avenue".
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Julian Bo Goldman became an early backer, and it was this school where Bo would begin his education.
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Bo Goldman followed this by skipping his last year at Dalton in favor of fast tracking through Phillips Exeter Academy, an experience that informed a script he would write years later, Scent of a Woman.
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Bo Goldman adopted it as his pen name and later legally changed his name.
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Bo Goldman is not related to prestigious screenwriter William Bo Goldman, who, like Bo, won Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Bo Goldman would spend the next few years unsuccessfully trying to get his second show, Hurrah Boys Hurrah, produced.
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Bo Goldman went on to himself produce and write for public television on the award-winning NET Playhouse.
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The script became Bo Goldman's calling card, and he would soon be "known for some of the best screenplays of the 1970s and 80s".
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Bo Goldman next wrote The Rose, which was nominated for four Academy Awards.
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Bo Goldman's calling card, Shoot the Moon, was then filmed by Alan Parker and starred Diane Keaton and Albert Finney.
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Bo Goldman followed this with Scent of a Woman receiving his second Golden Globe Award and third Academy Award nomination.
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Bo Goldman's screenplay provides him with a string of indelible wisecracks.
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Bo Goldman did a rewrite of The Perfect Storm in 2000.
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Bo Goldman has the most varied and intelligent credits, from Cuckoo's Nest to Shoot the Moon, the best divorce movie ever made, to Scent of a Woman, to the great satire Melvin and Howard.
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Bo Goldman rarely makes mistakes, and he manages to maintain a distinctive American voice.
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Bo Goldman's words were silk, never wasted or misplaced, and he would throw away what others would consider glorious and did it all without a moment's fanfare.
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Bo Goldman married Mabel "Mab" Ashforth in 1954 and they remained married until her death in 2017.